Intensive glucose control and cardiovascular outcomes.
Intensive glucose control and cardiovascular outcomes.
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强化血糖控制和心血管结局。
DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(09)61479-3
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发表时间:
2009
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Krumholz,HM
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作者:
Lipska,K;Inzucchi,SE;Kosiborod,M;Krumholz,HM
The meta-analysis by Kausik Ray and colleagues (May 23, p 1765) 1 suggests that intensive glucose lowering has significant benefit on coronary heart disease (CHD) but not stroke outcomes. The data provide the opportunity to compare cholesterol, blood pressure, and hyperglycaemia in terms of their associations with vascular disease. The table shows the expected (epide mi o logical) reductions in the incidence of cardio vascular events in individ uals with lower levels of the variables in question, 2, 3 as well as data from meta-analyses1, 3–5 on the effect of interven tional risk-factor lowering. The data suggest that glycaemia is a substan tial ly weaker risk factor than is cholesterol or blood pressure. In terms of reversibility, all interventions show around two-thirds or more of the expected reduction in CHD risk. For stroke, however, cholesterollowering and blood-pressure-lowering seem fully to reverse excess risk, whereas intensive glycaemic control is without signi ficant bene fit. Because sudden and unex pected death was not classified as a CHD endpoint in all glycaemic control studies, the estimate of CHD benefit could be exaggerated. Indeed, estimates for total mortality are unchanged with intensive glycaemic control (six studies 1· 01, 95% CI 0· 90–1· 14; four studies: 1· 01, 0· 93–1· 10).The table also shows numbers needed to treat (NNT) by assuming a 10-year risk of 17· 4% for CHD and 5· 0% for stroke (ie, those for controls in the UKPDS). Even if treatment produced full reversibility of the effect of hyperglycaemia on stroke as well as CHD, the NNT for 10 years would still be more than 50% higher than those for cholesterol and blood pressure. For comparison, calculation of NNT for 10 years for serious microvascular complications in a UKPDS population are 102 for blindness in one eye, and 518 for prevention of renal failure. Statins and newer antihypertensive agents provide simple regimens and are relatively free from side-effects. By contrast, intensive glucose lowering requires drugs that might have to be injected several times a day and that can produce severe side-effects, and involves monitoring with fingerprick samples, having a significant effect on quality of life.